Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried.

If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.

What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.